Travel Tips and Tools

NYC Attractions, Like NY SKYRIDE, are Blending High-Tech and High Convenience With New Online Trip Planning Tools (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

24 Jul 2008

Gone are the days when travel guides or travel agents were the most up-to-date source of travel information. With new online travel tools developing daily, all sorts of NYC attractions can be pre-planned and booked from a comfy chair at home.

The Think Box: Teasing the brain of the business traveler (International Herald Tribune)

24 Jul 2008

The Think Box, designed by Roger von Oech, is the latest gimmick in Crowne Plaza's "Think Tank" campaign to stimulate business guests with tools and tips from "innovators and visionary thinkers."

Outdoors library: New books to lure fly-casters (Miami Herald)

23 Jul 2008

The freshwater fly fisher relies on tiny lures called "flies" to trick the quarry, usually trout. The idea is to present the fly to the fish in a way that makes the fly look like an insect floating on the surface (a dry fly) or beneath it (a wet fly).